Trade Card for White Sewing Machine Co. of Cleveland, Ohio.

According to authors, Dan Ruminski and Alan Dutka (Cleveland in the Gilded Age), Thomas H. White began making sewing machines in Phillipston, Massachusetts. He moved his company to Cleveland, Ohio in 1866, in order to seek a broader territory. The then-named White Manufacturing Company became the White Sewing Machine Company in 1876.

Source:  Cleveland in the Gilded Age:  A Stroll Down Millionaires’ Row by Dan Ruminski and Alan Dutka. Published by The History Press, South Carolina. First published 2012. Online source:  books.google.com